Saturday, July 31

Remember back in May when I was sharing about the garden secret? Well, the secret has been out for a bit and is coming into its full glory!

Here's the before picture:

And here's the picture I took yesterday with the same two girls:

It's been fun because the grands have wandered in and out of grandma's sunflower house when they've come to visit. Along the pathway, the zinnias are in full bloom and the cosmos are just starting to bloom. The sunflowers are just beginning to bloom, too, and it will look so wonderful when all their sunny faces are blooming since we planted a variety of sunflowers.

I did get a good chuckle yesterday when I was traveling with my girls and drove past a huge field of blooming sunflowers. It was so fun to see the multitude of sunny faces looking our way. One of the girls was concerned though as she wondered how they were ever going to pick all those sunflowers to sell especially since they were all growing so closely together. I explained that these sunflowers most likely weren't for decorative uses but were highly likely grown for their seeds, like the sunflower seeds we put into our bird feeders. It is fun to see birds on our garden sunflowers at the very end of the season as they peck the seeds out.

Although I thought I may regret taking such a large space up in my vegetable garden for this secret, I absolutely love having flowers to walk past as I work among the vegetables. They always make me smile! (That was for you, Tina!)

If you have other glimpses you'd like to share, please drop me a note at: tam.gardening@yahoo.com

gardening goals

"Cultivate faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love in your children. For if they are growing in these qualities, they won't be ineffective or unproductive, and they will never stumble." - paraphrase of II Peter 1:5-10 from "Hugs for the Heart"